luaLaTeX-platform – Load platform-specific code into LuaTeX

While plat­form-spe­cific prob­lems can of­ten be han­dled purely in
Lua, it some­times hap­pens that ac­cess to the na­tive op­er­at­ing
sys­tem API is re­quired. For such tasks, Lua it­self makes it
pos­si­ble to load ex­ten­sion mod­ules writ­ten in C (or other
lan­guages pro­vided that they can pro­duce a dy­namic li­brary that
ex­ports a cer­tain C-style func­tion).

The present pack­age aims to pro­vide such an ex­ten­sion mod­ule that
is us­able from both Lua and LuaTeX and adds a small set of
fea­tures not avail­able oth­er­wise. This re­lease merely sup­ports
list­ing the fonts known to the op­er­at­ing sys­tem (this fea­ture
could use­fully be in­te­grated into the
lu­aot­fload pack­age).